Military issue monument;
Small garden covers two Marion plots with many decoration items.

Inscriptions, top reading
from the East:

JOHN P MARIONS1 US NAVY
WORLD WAR II
DEC 3 1920 DEC 1 1982

Date Surveyed: 11-11-07

Surveyor:
C. Lehan

Last Name:
MARKS

First: Liona

Middle: M.

Lot # : 17

Plot # :
12

Gender: F

Birth Name: BrandtPrevious Married Name: Elsfelder

Born: June 7, 1872
Freeport, Illinois

Died: April 28, 1946
Salem, Oregon

Burial Date:
May 1, 1946

Notes: Wife of George
Elsfelder, daughter of Charles A. and Fredericka Brandt,
sister of Gertrude Brandt Campbell
Ledger Notes: Age: 73 Yrs., 10 Mos., 18 Days
Funeral: C. A. Hodson The ledger lists her as "Leona", but the correct spelling is "Liona"
according to family and census records.Family Contribution:

The 1880 Oregon census lists "Liona L" Brandt, 9, born in
Illinois, and living "at home" with her mother. 1880 U.S.
Census, Cedar Creek Prct, Washington Cnty, OR. According
to her sister Gertrude's obituary in the Sherwood [OR] Valley
News (31 Aug 1939), Liona was named as "Mrs. Liona Marks"
and lived in Sherwood, Or.

Liona Brandt was born June 7,
1872 in Freeport, IL. The family moved to Oregon around 1877,
and the 1880 Oregon census lists "Liona L," 9, living "at home"
with her mother in Washington County, OR.

Liona married George Elsfelder
about 1895. The 1900 census lists her and her husband and young
son living in Portland, OR. In the 1910s they lived in Columbia
County, OR; by 1920 they had moved to Clark County, WA, where
they lived until George died in 1933.

Sometime between 1933 and 1939,
Liona married a man named Marks, and she lived in Sherwood, OR.
According to her Oregon death certificate, Liona Marks, a widow,
died 28 Apr 1946, at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, Marion
County, OR, of "myocardial degeneration.” She had been
hospitalized for 1 yr, 8 months. The certificate notes that her
parents were Charles Brandt and Fredericka Weckert, both born in
Germany.

Notes:
Ledger
Notes: Age: 93 Yrs.
Funeral: Attrell's Chapel
Family Contribution: Emilie was born
23 December, 1888, (according to birth records of that
parish), baptized (and recorded) 23, March, 1889. Her
parents were Johan Emil Olsen and Johanne
Kristoffersdatter. She emigrated to Alberta Canada as a
young woman. She married Harry Abram in 1910 and was
widowed in 1911, with one daughter, Irene (Gotcher).
She and Fred Martin were married in Alberta on 26 Nov,
1913, and had five more children: daughters Rose
(Swenson), who is buried in PV Cem.; Dorothy (Parrott);
Alida (Nielsen); Melvine Getman; and son Floyd Martin (dec.)
She was an accomplished seamstress and gardener.

Monument Survey

Monument Material:

Granite
monument and concrete apron

Auxiliary Stones:

None

Monument Problems:

Minor sinking; apron is mostly covered

Engraving:

Mint condition with some lichen

Illustrations:

Flowers, open book with wedding date

Flower
Containers:

Two holders, two cups

Other Remarks:

Inscription, top reading
from the West:

M A R T I N

FRED1889 1983FATHER

MARRIED
11-27-1913

EMILIE M.1889 1982MOTHER

Date Surveyed:
10-09-06

Surveyor:
C. Lehan

Last Name:
MARTIN

First:
Fred

Middle:

Lot # : 142

Plot # : 3

Gender:
M

Birth Name:

Born:
1889

Died:
1983

Burial Date:
Feb. 22, 1983

Notes: Ledger
Notes: Age: 94 Yrs.
Funeral: Attrell's Chapel
Family Contribution: Fred Martin (husband of
Emilie, space 3) was born 21 Feb., 1888 in Grossliebenthal, Odessa district, Ukraine. His parents
were Wilhelm Martin and Friederike Horch. He emigrated
at the age of 11, along with his parents and siblings,
to a homestead in McHenry County, North Dakota. He was
married and widowed as a young man, then married Emilie.
In 1914 or 1915 they returned to take over his family’s
farm in North Dakota, where they lived until 1925, when
they sold the farm and moved to Sherwood. They
purchased land at the crest of Willamette Street in that
city, later purchasing the Campbell home and more land
in 1935. They owned a dance hall, skating rink, and
grocery and feed stores in Sherwood and were chicken and
black raspberry farmers. Fred served as a Sherwood City
Councilman during the 1940’s. Giving home-building lots
to their children who remained in Sherwood, they lived
in their large home, surrounded by homes of their
children and grandchildren, until their deaths in 1982
and 1983.

Notes: Son of James Edward and
Urania McConnell. Here is a case where there is clearly an
error in the ledgers that were transcribed in 1907. Death year
and age are the same for Charles and his sister, Susan, but their
burial dates are 3 months apart. This is not logically
possible. In addition, both children are alive in the 1870
census; Charles is listed as age 6 and Susan is listed as an infant.
I am assuming that the information for Susan is accurate and was
mistakenly copied to Charles. The only unique date for Charles
is the burial month and day, so those may be correct. I have a
1980 family narrative (excerpt below) that says that Charles lived
to age 7 and Susan to age 4, which means that Charles died sometime
in 1870 or 1871 if he was age 6 at the time of the 1870 census.
Ledger Notes: Age: 4 Yrs., 3 Mos., 29 Days
Nativity: OregonFamily Narrative by Bernice Lavelle Mickelberry in March 1980:"James Edward McConnell and Urania Jane Gregg were
married at the McConnell home by John Boston, Justice of Peace in
1862 in Yamhill Co., Oregon. They filed on a homestead and
lived on that property a short time. Then they purchased a
farm in Clackamas County Ore. and lived there the remainder of their
lives. To them were born Rosie, Charlie, Mary, Lawrence,
Susie, Stella, Orin, Lillie and Dollie. Rosie and Dollie lived
only a few months. Charlie lived to age 7 and Susie to age 4.
Stella worked at the Sherwood Post Office for her postmaster
brother, Lawrence. She died at age 41 of leakage of the heart.
She never married. The McConnell's and Greggs lived near one
another. James was a scout in the Indian war around Walla
Walla, Wash. He died of consumption in 1900 at age 62.
Jane, (Urania) called Aunt Jane by the community of Sherwood, lived
to hold baby Terry Larsen, her first great great grandchild, great
grandson of Orin. She died in 1937 in the old farm home where
she had lived for 70 years or more."

Notes: Oregon
Pioneer of 1852 Son of John C. McConnell and Marguerite
(Larkin) McConnell.
I have a family narrative that says he died at 41, which would make
his birth year 1846, but 42 is what the ledger says.
Ledger Notes: Age: 42 Yrs., 7 Mos., 8 Days
Nativity: Illinois

Notes: Likely
Pioneer. No record found in the ledgers for Eliza.
Ledger Notes: Daughter of James W. Tuckness and Permelia
(Baker) Tuckness; mother of Minnie, James, Miles, Ira, Evva,
Clarence, Clyde, and Lucy.

MOTHER stone

FATHER stone

East Face

West Face

Monument Survey

Monument Material:

Granite
monument and granite base

Auxiliary Stones:

MOTHER and FATHER marble stones w/ sandstone base on either side of the headstone. MOTHER is broken from base which appears to be missing. Top is also broken.

Monument Problems:

None for main monument. See above for auxiliary.

Engraving:

Mint condition with some lichen

Illustrations:

None

Flower
Containers:

None

Other Remarks:

Inscriptions:

East Face

West Face

McCONNELL
MOTHER
FATHER

NELSON McCONNELL
BORN SEPT. 18, 1834
DIED JAN.15, 1907
-------ELIZA E.
BORN MAY 26, 1847
DIED AUG. 17, 1892
-------A FATHER AND MOTHER DEAR
AND TWO KIND FRIENDS ARE RESTING HERE.